Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

unperplex

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

English

Etymology

From un- + perplex.

Verb

unperplex (third-person singular simple present unperplexes, present participle unperplexing, simple past and past participle unperplexed)

  1. (transitive) To free from perplexity.
    • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Ecstasy”, in Poems, [] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: [] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, [], published 1633, →OCLC:
      This Extasie doth unperplex
      (We said) and tell us what we love

References

unperplex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads